To Mignon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB C CB DDE C CE FFG C CG HHI C CI JFK C CK L I MI M N OP O Q RQ R N ST S U RV R W XL X I YZ Y V A2B2 C2 I D2E2 D2 L HF2 H Z RG2 R I H2I2 H2 R RR ROVER vale and torrent far | A |
Rolls along the sun's bright car | A |
Ah he wakens in his course | B |
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Mine as thy deep seated smart | C |
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In the heart | C |
Ev'ry morning with new force | B |
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Scarce avails night aught to me | D |
E'en the visions that I see | D |
Come but in a mournful guise | E |
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And I feel this silent smart | C |
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In my heart | C |
With creative pow'r arise | E |
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During many a beauteous year | F |
I have seen ships 'neath me steer | F |
As they seek the shelt'ring bay | G |
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But alas each lasting smart | C |
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In my heart | C |
Floats not with the stream away | G |
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I must wear a gala dress | H |
Long stored up within my press | H |
For to day to feasts is given | I |
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None know with what bitter smart | C |
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Is my heart | C |
Fearfully and madly riven | I |
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Secretly I weep each tear | J |
Yet can cheerful e'en appear | F |
With a face of healthy red | K |
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For if deadly were this silent smart | C |
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In my heart | C |
Ah I then had long been dead | K |
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THE MOUNTAIN CASTLE | L |
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THERE stands on yonder high mountain | I |
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A castle built of yore | M |
Where once lurked horse and horseman | I |
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In rear of gate and of door | M |
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Now door and gate are in ashes | N |
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And all around is so still | O |
And over the fallen ruins | P |
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I clamber just as I will | O |
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Below once lay a cellar | Q |
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With costly wines well stor'd | R |
No more the glad maid with her pitcher | Q |
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Descends there to draw from the hoard | R |
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No longer the goblet she places | N |
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Before the guests at the feast | S |
The flask at the meal so hallow'd | T |
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No longer she fills for the priest | S |
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No more for the eager squire | U |
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The draught in the passage is pour'd | R |
No more for the flying present | V |
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Receives she the flying reward | R |
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For all the roof and the rafters | W |
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They all long since have been burn'd | X |
And stairs and passage and chapel | L |
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To rubbish and ruins are turn'd | X |
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Yet when with lute and with flagon | I |
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When day was smiling and bright | Y |
I've watch'd my mistress climbing | Z |
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To gain this perilous height | Y |
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Then rapture joyous and radiant | V |
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The silence so desolate brake | A2 |
And all as in days long vanish'd | B2 |
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Once more to enjoyment awoke | C2 |
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As if for guests of high station | I |
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The largest rooms were prepared | D2 |
As if from those times so precious | E2 |
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A couple thither had fared | D2 |
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As if there stood in his chapel | L |
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The priest in his sacred dress | H |
And ask'd Would ye twain be united | F2 |
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And we with a smile answer'd Yes | H |
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And songs that breath'd a deep feeling | Z |
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That touched the heart's innermost chord | R |
The music fraught mouth of sweet echo | G2 |
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Instead of the many outpour'd | R |
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And when at eve all was hidden | I |
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In silence unbroken and deep | H2 |
The glowing sun then look'd upwards | I2 |
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And gazed on the summit so steep | H2 |
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And squire and maiden then glitter'd | R |
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As bright and gay as a lord | R |
She seized the time for her present | R |
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And he to give her reward | R |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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